English 2072F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bottle Cap, Red Bull, Textuality
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Critical paragraph: (250 words--one page) due march 10. Students need to develop a well-organized critical paragraph in response to the following question on beagle"s novel. Examine one prominent difference between beagle"s postmodern fairy tale and traditional fairy tales (grimm"s fairy tales). The paragraph must be focused, analytical, and clearly written. Last unicorn is an other: utterly distinct - represents rejuvenation and rebirth. Act of turning a pure innocent being into a human. Romantics were literary and cultural movement from 17th -12th century: post romantic movement , people who followed after their ideas. Deism : god is the perfect watchmaker. Romantics believed god was a presence but people were directly conneted to nature. Microchasm: tolkien believes that magic opens up world for us because it breaks those boundaries , what magic does in fairytales : it changes our perceptions of the world.